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Proposed deletion of ACS Peacock

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Hi, Oskosst. Please read Wikipedia:Notability, Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:Conflict of interest as a starting point. Deb (talk) 13:58, 1 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Please take note of the above advice and do not create any further new articles unless they comply with these guidelines. Deb (talk) 15:27, 1 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Deletion discussion about Stanley Farlow

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Incorrect capitals

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Please note this edit. Under WP:MOS, one does not capitalize an initial letter merely because it's in a section heading. Michael Hardy (talk) 13:45, 3 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

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ReFill

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When creating pages, please format the references to include more than a URL. An easy way to do this is with WP:REFILL; directions to add a link to the Wikipedia interface can be found on that page. power~enwiki (π, ν) 00:48, 21 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion nomination of Lutyens & Rubinstein

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Deletion discussion about ACS Peacock

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Proposed deletion of Daniel R. Headrick

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May 2018

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New articles and references

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I notice that (a) some of your recent new articles about historians have been proposed for deletion and (b) you have tended to provide just bare-URL references (as others have commented above). The two subjects may be related: providing clear references to reliable sources makes it more likely that an article will be perceived to be robust and on a notable subject. Sites such as Goodreads involve user-generated content and it is best that an article should not rely on these. The information at WP:CITEHOW may be useful. AllyD (talk) 10:46, 31 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

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Proposed deletion of Barry Hollembeak

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Deletion discussion about Barry Hollembeak

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Deletion discussion about Dirk Imhof

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List of Indian cities by number of airports moved to draftspace

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Proposed deletion of John Ben Snow Prize

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Ways to improve Nabtesco

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Proposed deletion of Juha Matti Tilli

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Chetan Sandesara moved to draftspace

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Nomination of Nitin Sandesara for deletion

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Proposed deletion of Sterling Biotech

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Referencing articles

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Please can you use the standard citation templates when providing references. At present the article that you are creating are remarkably difficult to navigate because of the lack of clarity around referencing. Please see WP:CITE for detailed guidance on citing sources. Thank you  Velella  Velella Talk   21:28, 22 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

  • I see that you have been advised many times above about this. Please take the trouble to create proper references for your articles: this should have had references, not bare URLs. At the very least, if you are going to leave the URLs bare please don't put square brackets round them. This version still looks a mess but at least the reader can see what sort of sources you're using, and which of them are identical. You're not a new editor, so please learn how to create references. Thanks. PamD 09:45, 24 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Accuracy

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You stated that Eucharius Cervicornus was born in 1516 and died in 1547. That is incorrect. Your source, the Library of Congress authority file, says "active 1516-1547". That means that there was some evidence that he existed on those dates. You could say "born before 1516" and/or "died after 1546" (might have been as early as 1547), or use the conventional fl. 1516-1547 (which means we know he was alive during that time but with no indication when he was born or died).

Please be very careful not to add incorrect information to the encyclopedia. You seem to have mis-read his date of admission to university - or perhaps disbelieved 1513 as you'd got him being born in 1516. Read the sources carefully.

Eucharius Cervicornus is on my watch list - I see that I nominated a previous version for deletion in July 2017 as part of cleaning up the contributions of a banned user. PamD 09:59, 24 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

  • OK, I've now cleaned up your mistakes in that article, upgraded the references (I can't be bothered with the External Links bare URLs - a bot will probably come along and try to fix them), rejigged the text, and added a fascinating snippet which was in one of your sources, as well as LC's list of variant names. You needn't have done all of that, but please:
  1. Be careful about accuracy: you had false birth, death, and university dates for this man: that's a lot of mistakes for one very short article
  2. Add properly formatted references, so the reader can see where you got your information from. You've found good useful sources, please take the time to create a proper reference. If you use the "Ref toolbar" facility you can put in the Googlebooks URL, click on the little "autofill" icon, and it will make a fair stab at expanding the reference, though needs to be checked carefully and sometimes expanded.
Happy Editing, but please take more care. Thanks. PamD 10:50, 24 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

May 2020

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  Hello, I'm PamD. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Heather Dalton, but you didn't provide a reliable source proper reference. Please read Wikipedia:Citing sources. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page.

It is not enough to quote a bare URL for a reference, and even worse when this is enclosed in square brackets rendering it invisible. The Wikipedia policy WP:Verifiability states that "All content must be verifiable. The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and it is satisfied by providing an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution". A bare URL concealed from the reader does not constitute an inline citation. Your continued creation of articles with these poorly-presented references is disruptive to the encyclopedia. PamD 18:19, 24 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Graeme Dunphy

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Hi Oskosst, I see you have started an article on Graeme Dunphy. Well actually, that's me. I'm delighted that you think I am noteworthy enough. I write for wikipedia too, but I really don't want to write about myself, so I will not be editing this new article at all. But you are welcome to ask me if you want to know anything. Incidentally, I am not a historian, my field is actually modern languages. The overlap with history is my work on chronicles, which are usually the provence of historians, but I treat them as works of literature. I am currently professor of translation in Würzburg at the FHWS (https://fang.fhws.de/fakultaet/personen/professoren-und-lehrkraefte/person/prof-dr-graeme-dunphy/). From 1993-2013 I was lecturer of English in Regensburg. If you are interested, you will find PDFs of a lot of my work on www.academia.edu. Best wishes, --Doric Loon (talk) 21:15, 30 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

I have sent you a note about a page you started

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Thank you for creating Richard William Pfaff.

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I want to thank you for all your hard work creating articles. I really want to express my concern that you need to pay more attention to what you write and what it means. Writing an article about a man who died four years ago as if he was still alive, despite your only source for the article being his thorough, heartfelt obituary, can't seem anything other than insultingly slapdash, a cruel joke likely to cause distress to his family. I see you have been warned about shaky sourcing in the past, by me among others. Please be more careful in future. Your work really is appreciated, but your articles could be a lot better with just a little more time taken.

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Blythwood (talk) 22:13, 9 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

June 2020

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Nomination of David Braund for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article David Braund is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Braund until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. PamD 14:08, 18 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

I have sent you a note about a page you started

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Hello, Oskosst

Thank you for creating Robert Mimpriss.

User:Gazal world, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Hello. Thanks for creating this page. Please add more details about life and works of Robert Mimpriss from ODNB entry. There is little information about his contribution. Regards.

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Gazal world (talk) 07:06, 21 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi Gazal world, Oskosst has been blocked indefinitely, so presumably won't see this. His/her edits have been problematic, and even before the blocking, messages left here were invariably ignored, so I am afraid you will have to sort the problem yourself. --Doric Loon (talk) 09:14, 21 June 2020 (UTC)Reply
@Doric Loon: Hello. Thanks for notifying me about this. I will solve it myself with the help of ODNB entry. Thanks. --Gazal world (talk) 09:48, 21 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

Keyvan Mohajer moved to draftspace

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An article you recently created, Keyvan Mohajer, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. scope_creepTalk 13:29, 31 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

Concern regarding Draft:Keyvan Mohajer

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  Hello, Oskosst. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Keyvan Mohajer, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 01:01, 15 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

Your draft article, Draft:Keyvan Mohajer

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Hello, Oskosst. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Keyvan Mohajer".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 00:18, 13 June 2023 (UTC)Reply